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Clubhouse feels like a prime case of “that’s a feature not a product”. They did a great job pioneering a new conversation medium but implementations like Twitte
by mrobins 5y ago
Clubhouse feels like a prime case of “that’s a feature not a product”. They did a great job pioneering a new conversation medium but implementations like Twitter Spaces that piggyback off a social network feel more natural.
Audio rooms are great for unique, impromptu content - more collaborative than a post or a video but less staged than a podcast. Unfortunately audio-only discovery is hard and slow.
- Wowfunhappy 5y ago“that’s a feature not a product” I'm starting to get tired of this axiom. From where I'm standing, lots of successful products were built around a single novel feature. For Instagram it was filters; for Youtube it was the ability to post a video on the internet; for Google Docs it was the ability for multiple people to write in one document simultaneously? Perhaps some of those features are broader, or harder to replicate, or maybe the founders were able to pivot quickly—but I'd like to have those more nuanced conversations.
- mrobins 5y agoThat’s fair. Things that start out as a killer feature definitely have the potential to break out into wildly successful products/ecosystems. Instagram is a great example but I’d argue their early killer feature was even more similar to Clubhouse’s - being just photos without the rest of the noise of social media. Maybe Clubhouse can find that spot that helps them benefit from not having the baggage of Twitter etc. but seems like they’ve been slow to capitalize while everyone else is catching up.
- dado3212 5y agoDo you think it’s become harder to do that in the recent era? Are things like a filter app still taking off like IG did?